Archive for September, 2020
Monday, September 7th, 2020
Prime Minister’s Media Unit His Excellency the High Commissioner of India, Chairman of the BOI, Honorable Executives of HCL Technologies, and all those who are virtually joining us today. It gives me great pleasure to join you on the occasion of HCL Technologies inaugurating its first Global Delivery Center in Sri Lanka. As a nation, […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය මෙතෙක් ක්රියාත්මක නොවූ බෞද්ධ ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේලා 15000 ක් ආවරණය වන බුදුපුත් සුරක්ෂා සෞඛ්ය රක්ෂණාවරණ වැඩසටහන ලබන ඔක්තෝම්බර් මස 01 වනිදා සිට ආරම්භ කරන්නැයි ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.07 දින උපදෙස් ලබා දුන්නේය. නව රජය පිහිටුවීමෙන් පසුව අරලියගහ මන්දිරියේ පැවති, බුද්ධ ශාසන අරමුදලේ 84 වෙනි පාලක මණ්ඩල රැස්වීමට එක් වෙමින්, අරමුදලේ […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), නීතිඥ “විස්සේ හරි වැරැද්ද” මැයෙන් ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති විසින් ලියන ලද ලිපියක් 2020.09.07 දින www.lankaweb.com වෙබ් අඩවියේ පළ වී තිබේ. එකී ලිපියේ දැක්වෙන පහත ඡේදයන් සැළකීමේදී 19ය සහ 20 ගැන මෙන්ම ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 70 වන ව්යවස්ථාව සහ 2002 දී පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ 19ය සහ එයට අදාල ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරු 07 දෙනාගේ තීරණය පිළිබද මූලික අවබෝධයක් […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Provocative statements by the former Northern Province Chief Minister will only serve to harden the majority community stand on 13th Amendment Colombo, September 7: Controversial and provocative statements made by the Tamil Makkal Thesiya Koottani (TMTK) MP and former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran are likely to result in a […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) had agreed to a policy statement submitted by National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) Leader Zahran Hashim to the representatives of five political parties before the 2015 General Election, former SLMC Provincial Councilor Shibly Farook today admitted at the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. Testifying before the Commission […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed relevant officials to remove the 14% income tax levied on profits earned by gem and jewelry manufacturers and the 15% import tax on gold. The income tax concession given to the gem and jewelry industry from 1971 was removed from the income tax policy introduced in 2017. This […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the new government has prioritized the ICT sector and establishing a knowledge and technology based society to make Sri Lanka a global innovation hub. In addition to implementing a comprehensive digitization policy for the country, the government is also working on a number of other related programs, […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Over 6,000 persons are currently occupying the tri-service-managed quarantine centers, the National Operation Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) said. Accordingly, 6,610 individuals are undergoing the mandatory quarantine process at 63 quarantine centers (QC). As of this morning (07), 38,359 individuals in total have been sent back home after the quarantine process. […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court today issued summons on former minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne and two others to appear before the court on October 29, over the case filed regarding the leasing of the Modara fisheries harbor. The other two defendants in the case, former Chairman of the Ceylon Fisheries Harbour Corporation (CFHC) Upali […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Justice President’s Counsel Ali Sabry says that Independent Commissions have created a confusing situation within the country in the past few years. Speaking at an event held in the Wettamakada area in Kalutara yesterday (06), the Minister said that they have come to serve and not make amendments and write books. […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
By Charles.S . Perera When the people had sanctioned the removal of UNP from Parliament , there was no reason to keep 19A any more in the Constitution. It was introduced by Maithreepala Sirisena- Ranil Wickramasinghe duo on the19th April,2015, by Ranil Wickramasinghe to remove the executive powers of the President and make the Presidency […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 5 September 2020 Mr. C.V. WigneswaranLeader, TAMIL MAKKAL THERSIYA KUTTANISri Lanka ParliamentKotteSri Lanka Dear Mr. Wigneswaran (Wiggy): What’s going on Wiggy? You have exposed yourself indirectly that you bombed your Grade 8 Ceylon History’ subject and failed it miserably, at Royal College, by giving a helluva-go to usurp the […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
බන්දුල චන්ද්රසේකර විසාකේස චන්ද්රෙස්කරම්ගේ පාංශු” මෙරට සිදු වු දේශපාලන සංසිද්ධියක් විෂය කරගත් සිනමා නිර්මාණයකි. 1988⁄89 දේශප්රේමී” නැගිටීම, කුරිරු රාජ්ය මර්දනය හා පුද්ගල අතුරුදහන්වීම් සහ දේශපාලන ඝාතන එහි පසුබිම් කතාව වේ. අතුරුදහන් වූ කැරලිකරුවෙකුගේ මවකගේ (බබා නෝනා) දෘෂ්ඨියෙන් දිග හැරෙන කතා තේමාව සහ සිද්ධි සමූහය, එම කැරලිකාර පසුබිමට වඩා ඉන් වසර 6 ට පසු එළඹි පශ්චාත් […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
National Joint Committee The National Joint Committee wish to salute the principled stand taken by Honourable Sarath Weerasekera Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Authorities, that he is against the Provincial Council system and would endeavor its abolition. We hail the Honourable Prime Minister’s bold decision to advise the President under the existing provisions of […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
මාධ්ය නිවේදන -අර්ජුන රණතුංග හිටපු අමාත්යවරයා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයට හිමි ජාතික ලැයිස්තු මන්ත්රී ධුරය එහි නායක රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාට ලබා දිය යුතු බවට හිටපු අමාත්ය අර්ජුන රණතුංග මහතා පවසයි. අද (6) එම පක්ෂයේ 74 වැනි සංවත්සරයට එක් වෙමින් සිරිකොත පක්ෂ මූලස්ථානය ඉදිරිපිටදී මාධ්යයට අදහස් දක්වමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. එහිදී අර්ජුන රණතුංග හිටපු අමාත්යවරයා වැඩිදුරටත් […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති 19 වැනි සංශෝධනය” කියන නමින් හඳුන්වපු ව්යවස්ථා මංකොල්ලයට කාරණා දෙකක් පදනම් කරගෙන අපි තරයේ ම විරුද්ධ වුනා. මූලිකව ම, ඒ වැඩේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවට පටහැනි, නීති විරෝධි වැඩක්. ඒ කාරණය විස්තරාත්මක විදිහට අපි පැහැදිළි කරලා තියෙනවා. දෙවනුවට අපි අවධාරණය කළේ මේ ව්යවස්ථා මංකොල්ලය හින්දා ඇති වෙච්ච දේශපාලන අස්ථාවර බව. 2018 ඔක්තෝබර් මාසයේ ඉඳලා […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය ලෝකයේ දරුණුම ත්රස්තවාදී පිරිසක් කිසිඳු ගැටළුකාරී තත්ත්වයකින් තොරව පුනරුත්ථාපනය කර නැවත සමාජයට යොමු කරවීමට හිටපු අමාත්ය ගජධීර මහතාගේ නායකත්වය ඉතාම වැදගත් වූ බව ගරු අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අද 2020.09.06 දින දිවංගත චන්ද්රසිරි ගජධීර මහතාගේ වර්ෂ පූර්ණ ගුණානුස්මරණ උත්සවයට සහභාගී වෙමින් ප්රකාශ කළේය. මානව හිමිකම් රකිමින් ලොව දරුණුම ත්රස්තවාදීන් පුනරුත්ථාපනය කළ රට […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා කළ ඉල්ලීමකට අනුව හෙට 2020.09.07 දින සිට බිත්තර මිල රුපියල් 2.00 කින් පහළ දැමීමට සමස්ත ලංකා බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගේ සංගමය තීරණය කර ඇත. සමස්ත ලංකා බිත්තර නිෂ්පාදකයන්ගේ සංගමයේ නිලධාරීන් හා අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා අතර හමුවක් තංගල්ල කාල්ටන් නිවසේදී 2020.09.05 දින පැවැත්විණි. මෙම හමුවේදී අග්රාමාත්ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා පාරිභෝගික […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා 33.2.(ඈ) අනුව්යවස්ථාව අනුව 2018 නොවැම්බර් මස 09 වැනි දින අංක 2096/70 දරන අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් පත්රය මගින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවාහැරි අවස්ථාවේ ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය 2018.12.13 දින තීන්දු (Judgement) කරන ලද්දේ 70.1 ව්යවස්ථව අනුව වසර 4 1/2 ක් යන තෙක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීමට නොහැකි බවයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා වසර 4 1/2 කට පෙර පාර්ලිමේන්තුව […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News Two books written by retired Defense Secretary Major General Kamal Gunaratne were launched at the Kularatne Hall of Ananda College, Colombo today, released under the patronage of the President. The English translation of the book “Gotabhaya” written by the Defense Secretary as well as the novel ‘Underworld’ based on a series of true […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sri Lanka is well and truly in the vortex of Indian Ocean geo-politics, and the three new envoys to Beijing, New Delhi and Washington -Dr. Palitha Kohona, Milinda Moragoda and Ravinatha Aryasinha, will have their work cut out for them in their new stations Colombo, September 6: Sri Lanka is […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
By Manjula Fernando/Sunday Observer Courtesy NewsIn.Asia “The genuine grievance of our people is the non-settlement of their political issues. Not the denial of economic sops!” the former Northern Province Chief Minister said. Colombo, September 6: Maintaining his penchant for making controversial statements, the former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran told the Sunday Observer in an […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
By Norman Palihawadana Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Friday that punitive action will be initiated against all persons who failed to avert the devastating 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, based on the findings of the ongoing Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the carnage. Notwithstanding their positions and standing in society, we […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The fire onboard the crude oil tanker MT New Diamond has been completely doused, the Commander of Sri Lanka Navy confirmed. However, there still remains a risk of the ship catching on fire again due to the temperature of its current location, the Commander told media following a meeting held with the Attorney […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The World Health Organization says that it did not expect widespread immunisation against the novel coronavirus until mid-2021, tempering hopes just as research revealed encouraging early results from a Russian vaccine. The virus which has killed nearly 870,000 people worldwide continues to spread, with Italy’s flamboyant former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi now in […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
Anne Moore, University College Cork Courtesy Australiam Times President Vladimir Putin recently announced that a team of Russian scientists had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that it had been approved for use by the regulators. President Vladimir Putin recently announced that a team of Russian scientists had developed a COVID-19 vaccine and that it had been approved for […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2020
By M D P DISSANAYAKE, ( FCMA, CPA, CGMA, PhD) The 43 page draft amendment No.20 for the constitution is now in the public domain. Most of us thought the amendment might be couple of pages, as there was not enough time from the date of general election to draft an elaborate amendment. Surprisingly, The […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2020
C. Wijeyawickrema චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම, LL. B., Ph.D. Ven. Prof. Kotapitiye Rahula Thero, Our perception and opinion and knowledge are all based on the amount and quality of information we have about phenomena As a panchaskanda, not free from loba-dwesha-moha, your opinion on Milinda Moragoda or on Amin of the Ulema Sabaha is a world of your […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2020
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය අග්රාමාත්යතුමාට හා රටට සෙත් පතා සර්ව රාත්රික පරිත්රාණ ධර්ම දේශනාවක් 2020.09.04 දින කතරගම පූජා භූමියේ අෂ්ඨඵල බෝධීන් වහන්සේ අභියස දී පැවැත්වුණි. රුහුණු මාගම් පත්තුවේ ප්රධාන සංඝනායක, කතරගම ශාසනාරක්ෂක බල මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපති, කිරි වෙහර රජමහා විහාරාධිපති කොබවක ධම්මින්ද නාහිමි, කතරගම අභිනවාරාමාධිපති රුහුණු මාගම්පත්තුවේ ප්රධාන අධිකරණ සංඝනායක කපුගම සරණතිස්ස නාහිමි ඇතුළු මහා සංඝරත්නය දේශනා […]
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Saturday, September 5th, 2020
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Over 700 students from 19 schools in Sri Lankan capital city received stationery and panda school bags COLOMBO, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) — Over 700 students from 19 schools in Sri Lankan capital city have received gifts of stationery and panda school bags from the Chinese embassy to Sri Lanka. Students from different religious […]
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